>>>>>Here is another one: What happened in Rome, from October 5 to October 14, 1582?
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>>>>Just a guess, but did it burn? Trying to remember when Nero was in power.
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>>>Er, Jay, Hello-o! I think they had GUNPOWDER in 1582!
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>>Doesn't gunpowder burn? <g>
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>>Alex already shot me down. No need to kick me too! Anyway, you know how most of us colony types are on history and geography...
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>I didn't mean to kick you ... more like push my finger in the bullet hole. <g>. Actually, I didn't notice Alex's answer till I'd sent mine. Actually I thought you "ham shanks" were pretty good at history - but lousy at geography admittedly.
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>But, hey ... thinking Nero existed 90 years after Columbus rediscovered the New World... ? That stretches it. At this rate you guys better send in the Marines to protect Rome from the invading Visigoths, in the War on Terror :-)

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